Spectacle Investing

Investing through a different lens

[Spectacle Investing @SpectacleInvest]

@vantumnoir @RaymondZino @WatcherGuru Stifling development in the US

[Sam Altman @sama]

here is an alternative path for society: ignore the culture war. ignore the attention war. make safe agi. make fusion. make people smarter and healthier. make 20 other things of that magnitude.

start radical growth, inclusivity, and optimism.

expand throughout the universe.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

I'm middle of the road on the dangers of AI, but I know a statement with a spectacular possibility of not aging well when I see one. In fact, this may have set a new world record.

[Warren Davidson 🇺🇸 @WarrenDavidson]

I asked SEC Chair Gary Gensler about his selective enforcement in the @KimKardashian settlement.

Gary’s response? He can’t even answer the question.

Reason 1000 why Gensler needs to go!

[Warren Davidson 🇺🇸 @WarrenDavidson]

🚨I’m calling to restructure the @SECGov and the removal of Chair @GaryGensler.

Watch my closing remarks from today’s hearing where I lay out the abuse of power and failure to protect investors that has occurred.

[Spectacle Investing @SpectacleInvest]

Only thing I'm seeing is that it's deflationary. That being said, bags are loaded for the hype cycle.

[Val @valneurobro]

Layer-1 blockchains are often slow, costly, or non-interoperable…

Crypto mass adoption depends on change, and Injective Protocol provides an innovative solution👀

🧵I've spent weeks digging into $INJ – here's everything you should know:👇

[Charles Hoskinson @IOHK_Charles]

It's funny how government subsidized information sources seem to really hate being labeled as government subsidized media. Somehow in their bizarre world, the entity that gives you 70 percent of your operating budget has no influence or say over behavior?

[The Wolf Of All Streets @scottmelker]

If I raise a kid half as compassionate and understanding as the wrestler in blue, then I will have accomplished everything I need to in parenting.

[Spectacle Investing @SpectacleInvest]

@NowhereManPOV @ZubyMusic @bo1drealist In order to amass that wealth you have to take on enormous responsibility, commitment and develop the work ethic and life style to get there.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

They're still out there. 🫣

[Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ @ESYudkowsky]

10 obvious reasons that the danger from AGI is way more serious than nuclear weapons:

1) Nuclear weapons are not smarter than humanity.

2) Nuclear weapons are not self-replicating.

3) Nuclear weapons are not self-improving.

4) Scientists understand how nuclear weapons work.

5) You can calculate how powerful a nuclear weapon will be before setting it off.

6) A realistic full exchange between two nuclear powers wouldn't extinguish literally all of humanity.

7) It would be hard to do a full nuclear exchange by accident and without any human being having decided to do that.

8) The materials and factories for building nuclear weapons are relatively easy to spot.

9) The process for making one nuclear weapon doesn't let you deploy 100,000 of them immediately after.

10) Humanity understands that nuclear weapons are dangerous, politicians treat them seriously, and leading scientists can have actual conversations about the dangers.

[Spectacle Investing @SpectacleInvest]

@beffjezos @uncertainsys @lexfridman Are you going to go in person and speak with him?

[Spectacle Investing @SpectacleInvest]

Surely this won't backfire.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US Senator Elizabeth Warren launches "anti-crypto" re-election campaign.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

This is not to be missed. The world has changed. Things are different now. We just haven’t noticed yet.

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam 🔜 Adobe MAX Miami 2026 @LinusEkenstam]

We’re leaving the Information Age and entering the Age of Intelligence.

We have no clue what the implications are. Else then big.

“The information highway” will look bleak in comparison to the intelligence fire hose we all will be fed.

Near term everything and everyone will start using intelligence, with or without knowing it. It’s already happening.

ChatGPT, Bard, Bing are here to stay, it’s what comes next that will make us all wonder in awe.

We’re seeing early inklings of starting this with the release of Plugins for ChatGPT. Everything is slowly getting hooked up and connected to the intelligence. We’re breathing life into the beast.

Once we get used to this new way of interacting with technology, googling will feel like communicating with smoke signals and sticks.

That change has already begun. Googling something in many cases feels dumb and clunky and results have no intelligence.

I’m expecting rich natural language results from google and when I don’t get it, I’ll leave and use one of the existing intelligent tools.

This is just the beginning. All existing software is either completely re-thought or transformed to take full advantage of intelligence. And once the low hanging fruit is transformed. Enter the operating systems.

Soon we will have intelligence embedded at systems level. Omnipresent entities that will know us better than we know ourselves. If you thought cookie tracking was a problem.

Now imagine a digital entity that knows every intimate detail about you, both signal and noise. It’s hard to grasp the impact of this.

I’m optimistic in nature, but this change is not akin to the iPhone, this is more like the Industrial Revolution or perhaps even the wheel.

Entities that almost knows or very soul, if we chose to let it. I think we will. I think the positive outweighs the negative. I believe this will lead to us having tools to fight a lot of the struggles mankind faces today. Mental health, loneliness, connectedness, purpose to mention a few.

This particular incarnation of intelligence might have a hard cap on its potential and capabilities. But we’ve opened the imagination and seen what’s possible, that means we will venture beyond this version at some point.

Every single knowledge worker is poised to get augmented or enhanced by this new age of intelligence. The machines are scoring 90th percentile on bar exams. What comes next, we just don’t know. Should we be worried? yes. Should we panic? No

The cost of intelligence is also on a race to the bottom. It will be cheap and abundant.

It’s clear that the current version of intelligence is a true painkiller, solving real hard problems, and are reaching hundreds of millions of people in mere months.

We’re living through perhaps one of mankind’s most important technological forks. What goes down here might either send us down a track of endless possibilities and prosperity for all, a bountiful world of plenty. Or the exact opposite.

Regardless, the snowball has started rolling down the hill, hundreds of millions have tried drinking from the fountain of youth.

We are entering the Age of Intelligence

24 Mars 2023
Linus Ekenstam

[Dickie Bush @dickiebush]

ChatGPT is overhyped.

That's what I told myself after 2 weeks of trying (and failing) to use it well.

Turns out, I was just a poor prompt writer.

But after spending hundreds of hours tinkering, I've finally cracked it.

And now, it's my personal writing assistant.

Here's how:

[Spectacle Investing @SpectacleInvest]

Naval + David Deutsch is my favourite combination.

https://t.co/mHjHZH5pvi

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

The U.S. needs to update its financial system. The code is 40 years old and the laws are 100 years old.

Cryptocurrency is not a financial service. It's a technology that can be used to update financial services.

Let's update the system.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

1/ Today Coinbase received a Wells notice from the SEC focused on staking and asset listings. A Wells notice typically precedes an enforcement action.

[Spectacle Investing @SpectacleInvest]

@johnnycrypto_2 @ZssBecker @twobitidiot This is not the 1 to 1 comparison you think it is.